Norway’s maritime technology company Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by Equinor for the safety and automation system for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit at the Wisting oil field. The project is located in the Barents Sea, about 300 km north of mainland Norway. Current work focuses on front-end engineering design (FEED) for the safety and automation system, supporting the refinement of the FPSO development concept and subsequent investment decisions. The field has a planned operational life of about 30 years and is one of the larger undeveloped oil discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Under the contract arrangements, Kongsberg Maritime will undertake front-end engineering design work for the safety and automation system in the initial phase of the project, and will work with Equinor and other engineering suppliers on system concept design and technical refinement. The related work will be incorporated into the overall FPSO development concept and will support the project in developing a technical configuration that meets safety, operational and investment decision requirements.
According to the subsequent contract scope announced by Kongsberg Maritime, if the Wisting project enters the formal execution phase, the company will provide technologies, systems and services covering process control, safety systems, digital infrastructure and cybersecurity. These systems will be used for FPSO production process monitoring, critical equipment control, operational safety protection and digital operations support, serving the full-lifecycle operation of offshore production facilities.
Kongsberg Maritime has already participated in related work during the early development phase of the Wisting project and will leverage engineering experience and digital technologies from existing offshore energy projects to carry out system integration design. The front-end tasks undertaken by the company this time are aligned with Equinor’s ongoing overall FPSO development concept, and subsequent work will proceed in line with project investment and engineering implementation progress.
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Post time: Nov-11-2026